“ Fukt is a powerful exploration of the way trauma echoes throughout one’s life and the internal dissonance it can create. Emma Goldman Sherman goes dark, unsettling, deeply honest places. The type of honesty you have to lean into because it reveals human truths that normally stay hidden. It’s a story of being a survivor that is inventively and intelligently told with humor and depth and will stay with you for a long time. ”

“ A raw, honest evaluation of how the personas we adopt to replace past selves are not always able to repair the trauma deep down. A one-woman show hijacked by two other earlier versions of the playwright's past, this striking evaluation of the self is theatrical, haunting, and often laugh-out-loud funny. ”

“ Playwrights Foundation congratulates FUKT as a Finalist for BAPF 2020. This play rose to the top 35 out of 735 plays submitted, and was discussed at length by our Bay Area Literary Council for consideration in our season. We loved how this play uses the language of theater to illuminate challenging perspectives and compelling intersectional questions. This play ultimately moved & inspired us and spoke to the core mission of PF. We hope that once we’re allowed to return to our theaters again, it will be considered for production to reach new audiences. ”

“ I had expected to see a staged reading of this play around this time (April 2020), but the virus prevented that. Even so, I can only add my own endorsement to the many this piece has received. For all the harrowing subject matter (incest, illness, murder), the play always delivers on the comedy as well, especially the fighting and quarreling between the three women who are all aspects of the author. Comedy is in fact the play's great strength, without which it could easily become a tearjerker which it decidedly is not. "Oddly uplifting" is the author's apt description.
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